Hawking Shocks with Predictable Statement

By Frances Romero

"Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to ... set the Universe going."

Stephen Hawking, renowned physicist, in his book The Grand Design. Hawking told TIME in November, "God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God." (The Grand Design)